FCAA Blog

The FCAA blog is accepting up to four monthly blog submissions by FCAA members – or those organizations eligible for FCAA membership: private and public funders, consultants, and affinity group/infrastructure organization members. From time-to-time we may invite special guest blogs from other stakeholders to highlight key events or emerging issues of importance to HIV/AIDS-related funders. All published pieces will be shared with FCAA’s community of 1,200+ private and public funders, as well as online via Twitter and Facebook.

Guidelines:

Submitted blogs should be roughly 500-700 words long. We encourage photos and links to additional resources.

While we are open to blogs on all topics, we encourage submissions on such topics as:
a) Key Impacted Populations: examples of innovative funding/emerging issues in addressing key impacted pops (MSM/LGBTI, IDU, Sex Workers, Women, etc.);Integration: examples of how HIV funding intersects with other key areas in social justice and broader health;
b). Filling the Gaps - Resource Tracking Realized: entries that examine funding gaps or strengths demonstrated in FCAA, IHRFG or LGBTQ Funders resource tracking reports, OR other discussions that discuss the benefits of and strategies in using resource tracking data to shape funding decisions or priorities; and,
c) Post-2015 Agenda:examples of how philanthropy will be impacted by upcoming deadlines for key initiatives such as the National HIV/AIDS Strategy, the Millennium Development Goals, Global Fund exit from Middle Income Countries – and what do post-2015 plans look like?
d) General News/Meet our Members: share news from your organization (leadership transitions, new funding priorities, RFPs, etc.)

We will also soon introduce a new blog category called the “FCAA Forum” – a responsive blog tool to help raise awareness of, and funder action on, critical issues to the field.Views and opinions expressed on the Forum are not necessarily shared or dictated by FCAA or the collective members.

Please forward your email of interest, including your name, organization, proposed timeline, and the topic(s)
you are interested in writing an article on, to sarah@fcaaids.org.

The 30th anniversary of AIDS also
creates an important opportunity for the FCAA community to stop and
reflect on the important role of philanthropy has played in supporting
and advancing the global response to HIV/AIDS. Following the first
reported case of AIDS, philanthropy was still struggling to respond to
the epidemic; most funding for early AIDS efforts came from individuals,
and was mostly informal and highly personal. In 1987 FCAA was founded by
a group of grantmakers dedicated to bringing philanthropic attention to
the AIDS crisis and to building the field of AIDS-related philanthropy.
In 2003 FCAA published HIV/AIDS Philanthropy: History and Current Parameters 1981-2000 to provide a brief overview and history of U.S.-based HIV/AIDS philanthropy.

More on the WHO Guidelines

"...With only 30% of treatment coverage in West & Central Africa on
standards set by the 2010 WHO guidelines; with more than 60% of those
living with HIV in Eastern Europe and Central Asia being people who
inject drugs who account for only 22% of those receiving ART, it is hard
to imagine how an additional 7 million people will be accessing
treatment on the basis of the new guidelines. For this to happen,
enormous new political and financial commitments from both national
governments and the international community are urgently needed." Treat People Right: ITPC, ARASA and APN+ Raise Community Concerns about the New WHO Guidelines

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